DUBAI — Dubai Police are tightening the noose on the alleged killers of Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh.

VACAVILLE, Calif. — A 21-year-old man was arrested with the assistance of a K-9 unit in Vacaville last week after a police officer pulled him over and allegedly found marijuana in his possession.

A new form of phone scam has been reported recently that is targeting seniors in the area, police caution.

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP — An OxyContin addiction fueled by easy cash from local bank ATM machines has landed a Glenolden man behind bars on $100,000 cash bail, according to police.

What is really scary about this kind of technology use is that it creates excellent breeding grounds for child predators, such pedophiles and sex offenders, to prey on kids.

A man who said he wanted to buy The Peaks in 2008 used the property as bait for investors and ultimately used the money to finance his lavish lifestyle — from private jets to private school tuition — according to the Manhattan District Attorney.

WASHINGTON — Native Puerto Ricans living outside the island territory are reacting with surprise and confusion after learning their birth certificates will become no good this summer.

TELLURIDE MARSHAL’S OFFICE 1-23 IRON CHEF: Man watching T.V. in bedroom, about to fall asleep, when drunken man he’s never met pokes his head in. The man jumps out of bed to confront the intruder, and discovers the drunken man has his set of $800, high-carbon Global knives in his coat — a gift upon graduating culinary school. He demands the knives back, drunken man tells him “Those are mine …

EAST HANOVER TWP. - A Newark man pleaded guilty to terrorizing his elderly lawyer, the same attorney he had already pleaded guilty to extorting $2,000 from last year.

• Patrolman David Littman was investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle at 1:13 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 14 at a business on Hanover Avenue when he found Dorothy Wright, 38, of North Brunswick asleep in her vehicle.